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List of famous Chinese Americans
The following is a list of famous Chinese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:
- Iris Chang[?] (張純如) - writer
- Elaine Chao - Secretary of Labor
- Rosalind Chao - actor
- Shiing-shen Chern[?] (陳省身) - mathematician
- Vincent Chin[?] (陳果仁) - victim of racial crime [1] (http://www.asianweek.com/061397/feature)
- Connie Chung - TV news anchor
- David Ho - AIDS researcher
- Maxine Hong Kingston - writer
- Gish Jen - writer
- Michelle Kwan - athlete
- Tsung-dao Lee - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Wen Ho Lee[?] (李文和) - nuclear physicist [2] (http://www.wenholee.org)
- Katrina Leung - businesswoman, accused spy
- Lucy Liu - actress
- Maya Lin - architect (Vietnam Veterans Memorial)
- Lisa Ling[?] (凌志慧) - TV show host
- Eric Liu[?] - writer, a speechwriter of Bill Clinton
- Gary Locke - Governor of Washington
- I. M. Pei - architect
- Yoyo Ma - cellist
- Amy Tan - writer
- Chang-lin Tien - Educator, UC Berkeley
- Samuel C. C. Ting - Nobel laureate, Physics
- Chen Ning Yang - Nobel laureate, Physics
- An Wang - computer engineer
- Vera Wang - fashion designer
- Wayne Wang - Hollywood director
- Ming-Na Wen[?] (溫明娜) - Macanese-born actress
- David Wong Louie - writer
- Victor Wong[?] (黃自強) - Hollywood actor
- Frank H. Wu[?] (吳華揚) - a professor of law at Howard University, writer
- Chien-Shiung Wu - female scientist
- Jerry Yang - founder of Yahoo!
- Judy Yung[?] - writer
- Helen Zia[?] (謝漢蘭) - community activists and writer
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